Microsoft Announces It’s SQL Server For Linux

Microsoft announces its SQL servers in Linux, a historic step taken by the firm on the rival open source system. Almost half of the microsoft servers running on its own Azure cloud service which are powered by the open source operating system Linux. But we cannot run many of the microsoft software on the linux servers. The version of SQL server announced by microsoft is a flagship database program which is a multi-platform database development and porting system available for Linux, Windows and Unix. This version of SQL server will be available to the Linux users by the mid 2017.

This project has been the vital move by the Microsoft in focusing the core Windows operating systems. Microsoft’s SQL Server is one of the firm’s core products and the version of windows is used by many customers to run and manage databases. Scott Guthrie, head of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group, said the Linux version was currently being previewed and tested by customers but would be fully available by the middle of next year. He said Renault’s Formula 1 racing team was one of the first test customers for the code. Microsoft has almost 21% of the shares on the software market.

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